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Title

Embedding industry engaged learning across the university

Author(s)

Clements, Mike;  Hays, Jay;  Appleby, Mary

Abstract

This paper is the second in a suite of ongoing reports documenting one Australian university's longitudinal redevelopment of its Higher Education curriculum as it embeds Industry Engaged Learning, or IEL (an umbrella term for cooperative education, work-integrated learning, and related programs), across all undergraduate degree offerings. For the subject university, IEL is a philosophy, framework, and organising set of principles for learning in the workplace and community. This paper re-examines the attributes of IEL programs and lays the foundations for an encompassing applicable learning theory. It reveals tools developed to identify, evaluate, and create IEL units and activities and reflects on lessons learned over the past year. Both papers may be classed as case studies. Combined, they contribute significantly to a practical understanding of how universities may undertake a major transformation agenda and how that agenda may have to adapt to meet changing circumstances. Specifically, these two papers address how cooperative and work-integrated learning programs may be extended, enhanced, leveraged, and integratedwithin the overall curriculum.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of 'Where east meets west and theory meets practice', the 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education, Istanbul, Turkey, 20-22 June 2012

Publication year

2012

Keyword(s)

Case studies;  Curriculum;  Higher education;  Organisational change;  Work-integrated learning

Publisher

World Association for Cooperative Education

Publisher URL

http://www.waceinc.org/bahcesehir2012/

Copyright

Copyright © 2012.

Peer reviewed